COUNTY INMATE'S DEATH RULED FROM EFFECTS OF COCAINE

The results from the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office and the
Grayson County Sheriff's Office investigations into the June 20th death of
inmate Tymetdred Siquez Bowen are completed.

The M.E.'s office determined that Mr. Bowen died "as the result of toxic
effects of cocaine," according to Dr. Joni L. McClain's autopsy report.

How he got that cocaine into his system has been stated in the Grayson
County report by detectives who interviewed inmates who shared the holding
cell with Mr. Bowen.

The Bonham man, 28, died at Wilson N. Jones Medical Center after going into
seizures twice at the Grayson County Jail. Both times, nurses and EMS
tended to Mr. Bowen and took him to the hospital.

Sherman Officer James Boatman stopped Mr. Bowen's vehicle on a routine
traffic stop, he said in his report of the arrest. He learned of an
outstanding warrant that charged Mr. Bowen with deadly conduct by shooting
a gun.

The Grayson County internal report states that Boatman, also interviewed by
Grayson County detectives, stated that he asked Mr. Bowen several times if
he had ingested any narcotics, and each time Mr. Bowen declared he hadn't.
Boatman said, according to the report, that Mr. Bowen was coherent and had
his mental faculties when he released the inmate to the jail staff.

The report continues to say that jail personnel stated that Mr. Bowen was
nervous, but otherwise seemed fine and acted normal.

The report continues to say that Mr. Bowen was put in a holding cell with
several inmates. Their statements each reflect that Mr. Bowen went straight
to the toilet and tried to throw up. Mr. Bowen picked at his mouth and
teeth and tried to phone a bail bondsman, but couldn't speak coherently by
that time. Next, they said, they saw him slide down the wall and go into
seizures. Someone pushed an emergency button and staff nurses went to his aid.

The first ambulance trip was at 9 a.m. July 16, five hours after Boatman
made the arrest. At noon, a doctor signed a "fit for confinement" form and
Mr. Bowen went back to jail. That evening, about 6 p.m., he again went to
WNJ, this time to its intensive care unit. His family was with him until
his death, officials said earlier.

The inmates told investigators that Mr. Bowen said to those inside the
holding cell that he had swallowed 13 grams of crack cocaine. One inmate
told detectives that he had swallowed it before the officer made contact
with him. Another said Mr. Bowen told him "Sherman (police) pulled him over
and he had the dope and did not want a new dope case, so he swallowed the
dope so the cop would not find it."

The autopsy report said there was cocaine and its components in Mr. Bowen's
system, plus a trace amount of morphine. It also reported there was still
an anti-convulsive medication still in his blood at the time of autopsy.
There was no alcohol nor marijuana found, according to the report.

Calls to Mr. Bowen's family were unanswered.

Mr. Bowen would have been 29 years old three days later.